A YEAR AFTER FIRE

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 03/13/2017

Mandaue victims still await relocation A YEAR after a huge fire hit Barangays Guizo and Mantuyong in Mandaue City, hundreds of displaced fire victims have yet to start rebuilding their homes. Officials say this may finally happen…

NHA to allot funds for relocation of families

Intern 02/03/2017

THE National Housing Authority (NHA) will allocate P24 million to fund the relocation of the families affected by last month’s landslides in the mountain barangays of Busay, Sirao and Adlaon in Cebu City. NHA Engineer Constancio Antiniero…

Relocation sites sought for families

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 02/01/2017

The Cebu City Council called on the National Housing Authority (NHA) to help identify relocation sites for residents in the mountain barangays of Sirao, Adlaon and Busay who were displaced by last month’s landslides. In a privilege…

Worsening floods

Editorial 01/24/2017

It was no small coincidence that the floods and landslides in Metro Cebu and Cebu province occurred at the same time that a city in faraway northern Mindanao experienced its worst flooding since it went through the…

Relocation sites mulled for Mandaue fire victims

Dominic D. Yasay 01/21/2017

Four parcels of land in northern Cebu were being considered as a relocation site for over 400 families displaced by the fire in Barangays Guizo and Mantuyong, Mandaue City, in March 12 last year. Two of these…

Mandaue evacuees allowed to return home

Nestle L. Semilla, Norman V. Mendoza 01/18/2017

Five hundred families that were evacuated to covered courts and schools in four barangays in Mandaue City after the Butuanon River overflowed last Monday had returned to their homes yesterday morning. Seventeen family evacuees from Riverside Barangay…

Capitol mapping out contingency plans, relocation of families

01/18/2017

The provincial government allocated P24 million to develop contingency plans for dealing with calamity victims this year. Baltazar Tribunalo, the Capitol’s consultant for disaster risk reduction management, said the amount is part of a three-year program aimed…

Settlers’ plight

Editorial 12/15/2016

We can only hope that both Cebu City Hall and the provincial government resolve the plight of the Apas settlers, a substantial number of whom are blind people with very few opportunities for gainful employment. The fire…

Dino asks contractors to turn over Yolanda houses by year-end

Victor Anthony V. Silva 11/20/2016

Close to 240 families can expect to move in to new homes by December this year, more than three years after their old houses were destroyed by Super Typhoon Yolanda in 2013. Presidential Assistant for the Visayas…

Dino orders contractor to turn over Yolanda housing within the year

Victor Anthony V. Silva 11/20/2016

Presidential Assistant for the Visayas Michael Dino has ordered the contractor of a relocation site for families displaced by Supertyphoon “Yolanda” in Daanbantayan town, northern Cebu, to turn over housing units to the beneficiaries before the end…

Block 27 is temporary relocation site for city

06/12/2016

The Cebu City government is making the two-hectare Block 27 lot in the North Reclamation Area as a temporary relocation site for individuals who are displaced by court-ordered evictions and have no established relocation sites. “Because we…

City Hall unsure who told settlers to fence property

Nestle L. Semilla 02/28/2016

Who told settlers of Barangay Kalunasan that the 4.2-hectare Osmeña Shrine will be divided and distributed to them? That’s what Cebu City Hall wanted to find out as it refuted reports yesterday that the 4.2-hectare Osmeña Shrine…

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